Eva Mendes was born in Miami to Cuban parents and grew up in LA where she studied marketing in college before deciding to pursue a career in acting. She is a dedicated professional and has appeared in a number of successful Hollywood movies<\/a>. She is also a supporter and active participant in an international campaign to raise funds for breast cancer research.<\/p>\n Eva said that she appreciates the effect of Transcendental Meditation practice on her creativity:<\/p>\n \u201c…it helps creatively on a level that I cannot describe. I can give you a list of things I think, but it\u2019s tapping into something so deep that when I reap the rewards, I do not even know I\u2019m reaping them. It\u2019s a more\u00a0overall kind of\u00a0thing.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n \u201c(He\u2019s) one of my favorite directors\u2026. The audio is really interesting because you hear his voice and there is something so astonishing about him… his voice is so incredibly regular, and I mean that in the [most] ideal way possible.\u201d<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Successful people in the entertainment industry often talk about trying to find some personal peace of mind in what is otherwise an incredibly intense public life. The 36-year old American actress Eva Mendes is one of those people who has found a way to achieve that sought-after balance. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":12261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-eva-mendes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12264,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/12264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"eva-mendes-standing\"](\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/eva-mendes-standing.jpg\" "\\"eva-mendes-standing\\"")
\u201cI\u2019m actually huge into meditation, Transcendental Meditation, and that really helps create not only a sense of balance… this is going to\u00a0sound clich\u00e9d, but [also] serenity and kind of a calm state of mind. And not that I\u2019m like that all the time, but it helps me deal with life\u2019s ups and downs, coming from more of a centered place. Also, it helps with creativity…\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n![\"catching-the-big-fish\"](\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/catching-the-big-fish.jpg\" "\\"catching-the-big-fish\\"")
<\/a>In her interview, she says that what helped her to realize the impact of the Transcendental Meditation technique on creativity was listening to the audio book Catching the Big Fish<\/a> by award-winning filmmaker David Lynch<\/a>:<\/p>\n